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I think being eclectic is bad when you're just starting out.
Jerry Harrison / Songwriter
Eclectic
Eclectic Style
Starting Out
Thinking
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My other advice is to start writing songs and singing right away.
Jerry Harrison / Songwriter
Advice
Sight
Singing
Song
Writing
Right Away
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The vocals are what immediately draw people in and sell the song.
Jerry Harrison / Songwriter
Draws
People
Song
Draw
Sell
Immediately
Vocals
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I see myself as the buffer between the band and the record company.
Jerry Harrison / Songwriter
Band
Company
Records
Buffer
Record Company
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Brian Eno taught us how to use the Recording Studio as an instrument.
Jerry Harrison / Songwriter
Brian
Taught Us
Use
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I had previously been in the band the Modern Lovers with Jonathan Richman.
Jerry Harrison / Songwriter
Band
Lovers
Modern
Jonathan
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For a young band about to make a record, make sure you get the vocals right.
Jerry Harrison / Songwriter
Band
Records
Young
Vocals
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Normally when I work with bands I'm trying to refine and improve what's already there.
Jerry Harrison / Songwriter
Band
Trying
Improve
Normally
Refine
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Some artists want a producer to be a kind of svengali - someone who actually creates a sound for them.
Jerry Harrison / Songwriter
Artist
Sound
Svengali
Creates
Producer
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I've become increasingly confidant in following intuitions ahead of thoughts as I produce more records.
Jerry Harrison / Songwriter
Confidant
Following
Intuition
Produce
Records
Ahead
Increasingly
Thoughts
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That said, everything's important, and every musician who plays on the record is an integral part of it.
Jerry Harrison / Songwriter
Musician
Integral
Integral Part
Plays
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But when you're beginning, you should try to focus on something you love and your own way of doing things.
Jerry Harrison / Songwriter
Focus
Trying
Way
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It's really exciting working with a new band when you feel like you hit something that's great, and you helped them bring something out.
Jerry Harrison / Songwriter
Band
Exciting
Like You
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What's nice about being a producer is you get to roll the dice more often, and you get to be involved with lots of different kinds of music.
Jerry Harrison / Songwriter
Dice
Different
Nice
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Music has become a bigger business, and with that there is more pressure to succeed; I think that it creates a negative pressure for being creative.
Jerry Harrison / Songwriter
Bigger
Creative
Negative
Pressure
Succeed
Thinking
Creates
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I think my voice worked out fine, but it was a lot of work for me. And I was very self-conscious about it. I was a bit self-conscious about writing lyrics too.
Jerry Harrison / Songwriter
Fine
Self
Self Conscious
Thinking
Voice
Writing
Work Me Voice
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I think we could have done a lot more great music, so I was disappointed that we didn't continue making records and touring, but it's hard to argue with 10 good years.
Jerry Harrison / Songwriter
Disappointed
Done
Great Music
Records
Thinking
Touring
Years
Good Music Great
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I think that technology has both introduced new sounds but also allowed an increasingly painterly approach to recording music as you can now paint over what you've done and more and more refine an existing performance.
Jerry Harrison / Songwriter
Technology
Approach
Paint
Sound
Thinking
Allowed
Existing
Increasingly
Introduced
Performance
More And More
Refine
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Most bands have a sound that they're already identified with, so for the producer it becomes a process of helping them find their muse in the studio to make a record that will not only satisfy them artistically, but will also do something in the marketplace.
Jerry Harrison / Songwriter
Band
Helping
Marketplace
Muse
Records
Sound
Becomes
Identified
Record
Producer
Studio
Satisfy
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